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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Facebook invests $5.7B in Jio for a 9.99% stake, making it the largest minority shareholder in the subsidiary of India's most valued firm, Reliance Industries — Facebook has enjoyed unparalleled reach in India for more than a decade. But as China's fast-growing ByteDance emerges …
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| Nikhil Pahwa / MediaNama: |
Facebook's deal with Jio is unlikely to make a dent in India's mobile payments market, where Google Pay, PhonePe, and Paytm have emerged as the big players — So it's confirmed: Facebook has bought 9.9% stake in Jio Platforms Limited, the parent company of Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited, for $5.7 billion (Rs 43,574 crore).
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| New York Times: |
Facebook's Jio investment may pave the way for WhatsApp to connect with Indian businesses via JioMart, Jio's small-business marketplace, for mobile shopping — It was the largest bet by the social network on the developing market, where millions of people have gone online in recent years.| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
iPhone SE 2020 review: good battery life but has a tired design and while the camera is good in bright light and great at video, it is noisy in low-light — A strong case against $1,000 phones — What do you look for in a new iPhone? The top of the list likely includes battery life and camera quality.
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| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / VICE: |
Researchers say they found two iPhone 0-days, exploited in the wild, including a remote zero-click vulnerability; Apple says both will be patched in an update — In the summer of 2016, researchers at a digital rights organization and a cybersecurity firm announced they had caught …
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Netflix announces plans to offer $1B in junk bonds to fund operations and potential acquisitions; as of the end of March, Netflix reported $14.17B in debt — Netflix is going back to the debt markets yet again, announcing plans to offer $1 billion in junk bonds to fund operations and potential acquisitions.| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
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| Kate Cox / Ars Technica: |
Leaked screenshots of a Ring survey show Amazon is gauging interest in adding facial recognition and license plate detection tools — Amazon wouldn't be the first consumer company to do it, but it would be the biggest. — Amazon subsidiary Ring, which has partnerships …
Tweets: @bradmccarty and @angelsdiaz_
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Zoom rolls out its 5.0 update, focused exclusively on security and privacy features, including easier call management and upgrading encryption — Zoom is moving quickly to address complaints — Zoom promised a 90-day feature freeze to fix privacy and security issues, and the company is delivering on some of those promises.
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| CNBC: |
US Small Business Administration notifies ~8,000 business owners seeking federal relief loans that their personal data may have been exposed to other applicants — - Some small business owners seeking help via the Small Business Administration's Economic Injury Disaster Loan program …
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Vivaldi browser gets built-in options to block ads and tracking, with a blocklist powered by DuckDuckGo's Tracker Radar, and comes out of beta on Android — Vivaldi, the browser launched by former Opera CEO Jon von Tetzchner, has long positioned itself as a highly customizable alternative to Chrome and Firefox for power users.
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| New York Times: |
US intelligence officials say Chinese operatives are amplifying COVID-19 disinformation in America using text messages and social media posts — American officials were alarmed by fake text messages and social media posts that said President Trump was locking down the country.| Bobby Allyn / NPR: |
Profile of Martin Pichinson, whose firm helps wind down financially troubled tech companies, as his work ramps up amid 21K lost startup jobs since early March — Toggle more options — Monikers have followed Martin Pichinson for his whole career, given his line of work.| About Facebook: |
Facebook rolls out Messenger Kids to 70+ new countries, adding features to make it easier for parents to connect kids with their friends — With schools closed and people physically distancing, parents are turning to technology more than ever to help their kids connect with friends and family.
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| Jason Schreier / New York Times: |
While gaming sales are breaking records, the coronavirus pandemic is impacting the gaming industry with delays, scope cuts, and serious production challenges — The coronavirus pandemic is offering mixed news and new challenges for gaming companies, both independent and corporate.
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| Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: |
Epic Games launches Fortnite on the Play Store, after over a year of offering it only outside the store, noting Google puts sideloaded apps at a disadvantage — Epic Games is finally settling its feud — kind of — with Google and putting Fornite onto the Google Play Store, but the studio sounds pretty pissed about it.
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| Tom Krazit / Protocol: |
Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian says that its open source tool for microservices management, Istio, will be donated to a foundation in the near future — Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian has ended years of confusion by telling Protocol that Google will eventually donate its open-source project Istio …
Tweets: @techjournalist, @chipchilders, @christianposta, @sogrady, and @tomkrazit
| Megan Rose Dickey / TechCrunch: |
Patreon says it laid off 30 employees, 13% of its workforce, partly due to current economic uncertainty, despite seeing a surge in new creators last month — Creative platform Patreon has laid off 30 employees, which is 13% of its workforce, TechCrunch has learned.| James Pearson / Reuters: |
Sources: Vietnamese state-telcos took Facebook's local servers offline, slowing traffic, until the company agreed to increase censorship of “anti-state” posts — HANOI (Reuters) - Facebook's local servers in Vietnam were taken offline early this year, slowing local traffic …
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| Will Knight / Wired: |
MIT has terminated its five-year research collaboration with Chinese AI firm iFlytek, which is accused of supplying tech for surveilling Uighurs in China — Reports accuse iFlytek of selling technology to the government that's used to oppress ethnic Uighurs in China's northwest.
Tweets: @kenroth, @wired, and @tsimonite
| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Kuo: Apple postpones iPhone SE Plus release from H1 to H2 2021, seeing a dip in demand for iPhones and production delays across the upcoming iPhone 12 models — Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo of TF International Securities has shared a new investor note today detailing the ongoing development of Apple's 2020 iPhone 12 models.
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Tweets: @panzer and @tailosivetech
| The Daily Beast: |
Sources say Palantir's data suites are a primary contributor to HHS Protect Now, a US government tool to track the spread of coronavirus in use since April 10 — Palantir, a longtime partner of intelligence agencies, co-founded by major Trump backer Peter Thiel, is helping build “the single source for [coronavirus] testing data.”
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